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ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSIraq National Museum 2003: Looting, Investigation, and RecoveryIraq Museum 2003 looting + UNESCO/ICOM/DoS recovery—documented heritage crime, not war-porn.
FINANCE & BANKINGToshiba Accounting Scandal (2015)Toshiba restated years of filings after an independent probe. SESC/FSA penalty followed—execs stay in regulator verbs.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSAidonia Treasure: Mycenaean Gold and the Ward Gallery Settlement1993 Ward Gallery offer → Greek suit → SPGH settlement → 1996 return of Aidonia Mycenaean gold.
SCIENCE & SPACEThe Apollo Moon Landings: A Critical ExaminationDistrust says the Apollo landings were staged; agency reports answer some charges and leave others open.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSJames Alefantis, Comet Art, and Symbol-Mapping ClaimsPublic Comet murals and posts were mapped into trafficking codes. The artist denies it..
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSProto-Elamite Tablets: Accounting Before a Readable LanguageProto-Elamite: accounting before readable language—CDLI/Iranica doors; ≠ Linear Elamite crack.
AVIATIONX-20 Dyna-Soar: The Cancelled Boost-Glide SpaceplaneMcNamara killed X-20 on 10 December 1963 for mission definition—not because boost-glide physics suddenly died.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDCanary Islands UFO Expedientes (1976 and 1979)The 1976 file says the lights are unidentified; a 1979 note says missiles; neither identifies a craft.
SURVEILLANCERoom 641AMark Klein revealed Room 641A, an NSA-linked split at AT&T's San Francisco switch that copied the fiber.
FINANCE & BANKINGBre-X Minerals Busang FraudBusang sold as world-class gold. Freeport's 8-K carried Strathcona salting. OSC charged Felderhof—and lost.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSPersepolis Fortification Archive: Oriental Institute Tablets and Rubin v. IranRubin tried to break up the loaned Persepolis tablets to pay a judgment. The Supreme Court left the archive immune.
The Lost City of Troy and the Epic of HomerSchliemann named the mound Troy. Which layer is Homer's city, Troy II or a later one, stays unsettled.
AVIATIONConstant Peg: Secret MiGs at TonopahRed Eagles flew real MiGs at Tonopah 1977–1988—USAF declass renamed the desert folklore vacuum.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSPoverty Point and the Denial of Indigenous MonumentalismA lost-race story said Indigenous people did not build these mounds. The site record says they did.
ESPIONAGEThe EC-121 Shootdown (15 April 1969)15 Apr 1969: MiGs down Deep Sea 129; 31 dead. Hard public account of loss and tracks lagged—now NSA/FRUS L1.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSMerneptah Stele: Epigraphy of “Israel” in Pharaoh’s Victory TextMerneptah Stele JE 31408: Israel ethnonym in Year-5 hymn—documented Cairo epigraphy, not ballot politics.
HISTORICAL EVENTSIran Air 655 and the USS Vincennes (3 July 1988)Vincennes destroyed Iran Air 655—290 dead. Fogarty investigated; ICJ settled. Shootdown is fact; intent stays edged.
SURVEILLANCENSA Trailblazer and ThinThreadTrailblazer was carried as the future; oversight later called it a failure; ThinThread privacy was not built.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Klerksdorp SpheresKlerksdorp miners pulled grooved metal spheres from deep Precambrian rock. Adherents and geologists still duel.
SCIENCE & SPACETimes Beach Dioxin EvacuationTimes Beach roads got dioxin waste oil. After the flood, CDC advice emptied the town.